Break the arm of the wicked and evil person;
call his wickedness into account
until nothing remains of it.

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.

I call on You, God,
because You will answer me;
listen closely to me; hear what I say.

Lord, give victory to the king!
May He answer us on the day that we call.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

Lord, hear my voice when I call;
be gracious to me and answer me.

Davidic.Lord, I call to You;
my rock, do not be deaf to me.
If You remain silent to me,
I will be like those going down to the Pit.

Lord, do not let me be disgraced when I call on You.
Let the wicked be disgraced;
let them be silent in Sheol.

Let those who seek to kill me
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who plan to harm me
be turned back and ashamed.

But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.

The wicked one lies in wait for the righteous
and seeks to kill him;

He brought me up from a desolate pit,
out of the muddy clay,
and set my feet on a rock,
making my steps secure.

Call on Me in a day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.

But I call to God,
and the Lord will save me.

Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call.
This I know: God is for me.

I call to God Most High,
to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

Do not kill them; otherwise, my people will forget.
By Your power, make them homeless wanderers
and bring them down,
Lord, our shield.

I call to You from the ends of the earth
when my heart is without strength.
Lead me to a rock that is high above me,

Instead, they gave me gall for my food,
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.

May his name endure forever;
as long as the sun shines,
may his fame increase.
May all nations be blessed by him
and call him blessed.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations
that don’t acknowledge You,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on Your name,

Then we will not turn away from You;
revive us, and we will call on Your name.

Be gracious to me, Lord,
for I call to You all day long.

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.

I call on You in the day of my distress,
for You will answer me.

But I call to You for help, Lord;
in the morning my prayer meets You.

He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, the rock of my salvation.’

then I will call their rebellion
to account with the rod,
their sin with blows.

They kill the widow and the foreigner
and murder the fatherless.

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of trouble.
Listen closely to me;
answer me quickly when I call.

Give thanks to Yahweh, call on His name;
proclaim His deeds among the peoples.

They asked, and He brought quail
and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

Because He has turned His ear to me,
I will call out to Him as long as I live.

ק QofI call with all my heart; answer me, Lord.
I will obey Your statutes.

I call to You; save me,
and I will keep Your decrees.

A song of ascents.Out of the depths I call to You, Yahweh!

God, if only You would kill the wicked—
you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me—

A Davidic psalm.Lord, I call on You; hurry to help me.
Listen to my voice when I call on You.

The Lord is near all who call out to Him,
all who call out to Him with integrity.

If they say—“Come with us!
Let’s set an ambush and kill someone.
Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!

but they set an ambush to kill themselves;
they attack their own lives.

Then they will call me, but I won’t answer;
they will search for me, but won’t find me.

For the turning away of the inexperienced will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

furthermore, if you call out to insight
and lift your voice to understanding,

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding your relative.

Doesn’t Wisdom call out?
Doesn’t Understanding make her voice heard?

“People, I call out to you;
my cry is to mankind.

The intelligent person restrains his words,
and one who keeps a cool head
is a man of understanding.

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor
will himself also call out and not be answered.

A slacker’s craving will kill him
because his hands refuse to work.

Her sons rise up and call her blessed.
Her husband also praises her:

a time to kill and a time to heal;
a time to tear down and a time to build;

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who substitute darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs.

for before the boy knows how to call out father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.”

Do not call everything an alliance
these people say is an alliance.
Do not fear what they fear;
do not be terrified.

I will send him against a godless nation;
I will command him to go
against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,
and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

but He will judge the poor righteously
and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.
He will strike the land
with discipline from His mouth,
and He will kill the wicked
with a command from His lips.

Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.
Call out to them.
Wave your hand, and they will go
through the gates of the nobles.

Then the firstborn of the poor will be well fed,
and the impoverished will lie down in safety,
but I will kill your root with hunger,
and your remnant will be slain.

The nations rage like the raging of many waters.
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

“On that day I will call for my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

You have turned things around,
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?

Egypt’s help is completely worthless;
therefore, I call her:
Rahab Who Just Sits.

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the screech owl will stay there
and will find a resting place for herself.

You will winnow them
and a wind will carry them away,
a gale will scatter them.
But you will rejoice in the Lord;
you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,
one from the east who invokes My name.
He will march over rulers as if they were mud,
like a potter who treads the clay.

This one will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’;
another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
still another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’
and name himself by the name of Israel.”

I will give you the treasures of darkness
and riches from secret places,
so that you may know that I, Yahweh,
the God of Israel call you by your name.

I call you by your name,
because of Jacob My servant
and Israel My chosen one.
I give a name to you,
though you do not know Me.

“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?

I call a bird of prey from the east,
a man for My purpose from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.
I have planned it; I will also do it.

Look, they are like stubble;
fire burns them up.
They cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
This is not a coal for warming themselves,
or a fire to sit beside!

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.

Will the fast I choose be like this:
A day for a person to deny himself,
to bow his head like a reed,
and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Will you call this a fast
and a day acceptable to the Lord?

At that time, when you call, the Lord will answer;
when you cry out, He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you get rid of the yoke among you,
the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,

“If you keep from desecrating the Sabbath,
from doing whatever you want on My holy day;
if you call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
seeking your own pleasure, or talking too much;

The sons of your oppressors
will come and bow down to you;
all who reviled you
will fall facedown at your feet.
They will call you the City of the Lord,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Yet Lord, You are our Father;
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.

You will leave your name behind
as a curse for My chosen ones,
and the Lord God will kill you;
but He will give His servants another name.

Even before they call, I will answer;
while they are still speaking, I will hear.

I thought: How I long to make you My sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.
I thought: You will call Me, my Father,
and never turn away from Me.

a wind too strong for this comes at My call. Now I will also pronounce judgments against them.’”

“Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord and there call out this word: Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.

“When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations
that don’t recognize You
and on the families
that don’t call on Your name,
for they have consumed Jacob;
they have consumed him and finished him off
and made his homeland desolate.

“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me at the time of their disaster.

“I will ordain four kinds of judgment for them”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land to devour and destroy.

But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.

“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.

This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib,

because he didn’t kill me in the womb
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to Ahab son of Kolaiah and to Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, the ones prophesying a lie to you in My name: “I am about to hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

But I will bring you health
and will heal you of your wounds—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for they call you Outcast,
Zion whom no one cares about.

For there will be a day when watchmen will call out
in the hill country of Ephraim,
“Get up, let’s go up to Zion,
to Yahweh our God!”

Yet You, Lord God, have said to me: Buy the field with silver and call in witnesses—even though the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans!”